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Tuesday 16th June 2009, 00:05
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an osprey being mobbed by a pair of WHAT!?!?!?
Yesterday at the lake i saw an osprey being mobbed by what looked like a pair of ducks!
By the way they were flying straight and the out streached necks and size of a mallard but i could never see a pair of mallards trying to mob something like this! I am in kingston ontario anyone know what other species of duck would do this? they were the size of a mallard so no way was it a common loon! |
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Tuesday 16th June 2009, 09:53
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I could only assume that the ducks have a nest nearby with chicks. This offten prompts the most unsual scenes with birds in deffence of their young.
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Tuesday 16th June 2009, 11:57
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I agree with Charlie. I have seen a female duck chase off a dog which must have been near its nest.
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Tuesday 16th June 2009, 12:08
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I once saw a pair of Avocets rather bizzarely chasing swifts feeding over their nest scrape! Not thats territorial for you!
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Tuesday 16th June 2009, 12:20
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Last year I witnessed a Mistle thrush chase off a Sparrow hawk which had just killed a pigeon but dropped it in a pond.
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Thursday 18th June 2009, 01:38
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i remember watching a wildlife program a few years ago filming divers in scotland,an army jet flew over and the divers went beserk,1 adult chased the jet albeit 700 hundred feet below it over the entire water area
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Thursday 18th June 2009, 15:51
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An osprey that turned up this year at our reserve was constantly mobbed by families of shelduck - amazing scenes!
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Saturday 20th June 2009, 05:50
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I've twice been attacked by mother grouse. It quite chokes me up.
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Sunday 21st June 2009, 10:46
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F.Y.I and exellent osprey slideshow for everyone!
Now this is a real fisher of the wetlands and waterways
http://www.miguellasa.com/photos/ssp...lbumID=1001578 Enjoy!  Oakum Last edited by Oakum : Sunday 21st June 2009 at 10:49. Reason: URL not responding? |
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